RealDave
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A lot of people who typically vote liberal were won over with white nationalism. Black lives matter, illegals are rapists."It’s worth remembering, particularly when the Hillary Clinton recrimination news cycle is in full swing, that Donald Trump is president today because of a margin of fewer than 80,000 votes spread across three states.
“The most important states, though, were Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,” Philip Bump in The Washington Post wrote in December. “Trump won those states by 0.2, 0.7 and 0.8 percentage points, respectively — and by 10,704, 46,765 and 22,177 votes.”
Those three states, however, had been comfortably won by Democrat Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012. Much of the recent shift, however tiny, was due to slightly more white working-class voters voting Republican than before. This, in turn, has prompted an ugly and ongoing fight between two progressive factions: those who believe those voters were primarily motivated by a sense of economic insecurity and people who think the shift occurred because racist appeals are prompting more white people to vote for Republicans."
So, voters who voted for Obama, voted for Trump, because racism.
I know they did it because it appealed to me. I'm a white male liberal and like you I'm sick of high crime rates in the black community and illegals "Mexicans" stealing our jobs.
Trumps position is very liberal. Unions never liked illegals either. And no one likes the high crime coming from blacks. Trump used these issues to be different than the gop
Being against Black Lives Matter or being sick of high crime among illegals is not racism, it is not even White Nationalism.
Those are legitimate political positions.
The margin of victory, as the above link shows was primarily working class whites that last time voted for Obama.
Calling them racist, should be a wake call as to just how fucking full of shit modern liberalism is.
Nah. I understand it wasn't all about racism. And it wasn't all racists reasons why people went from Obama to Trump. Stupidity played a much larger role.
You see the absolute contempt liberals have for working class whites. THose whites not believing that those liberals would be on their side, is not stupidity.
Black or white, the GOP have proven to be the party that helps the rich only. Trump is proving to be no different. Sure he may help a few coal miners but that aint shit.
But illegal immigration is way down. Lets hope this helps bring wages up. But it won't bring them that far up, will it? I can't wait to see what happens next.
And they just cut food stamps. Good! I'm sorry for people who due to no fault of their own need some help but we all know the system's being abused. And people aren't trying hard enough to get off them. Get the fuck out there and work for it.
I have a buddy who will sell $40 in foodstamps for $20 in cash so he can play poker. He works under the table so qualifies for foodstamps. He doesn't have kids. I say take everyone who doesn't have kids off foodstamps. They'll figure it out.
Most adults without kids only get food stamps for a short period of time - like 90 days.
Instead of bitching about some abusing the system for poor, how about we look at corporate abuse of our tax system?